If you’re being affected by human trafficking, it’s important to remember it’s not your fault. What you’re experiencing is a crime against you and you’re not to blame.
Human trafficking means people are being bought and sold and where the people being bought and sold are controlled and forced to do things they don’t want to do.
There is sex and labor trafficking:
- Sex trafficking is a human trafficking case of trading sex for anything of value (money, a place to stay, food, clothes, etc.).
- Labor trafficking is a human trafficking case where someone is forced to work against their will.
If you need help or if someone you know needs help, please find resources below:
Do you need emergency assistance?
- Call 911
- Call DHS hotline at 1-(800)-932-0313
Do you need a place to stay?
- Covenant House Emergency Shelter – call (215)-951-5411
- Valley Youth House – call 1-(888)-468-7315
Do you need to speak with a lawyer?
- Community Legal Services Youth Justice Project – call/text (215)-893-8400
- Immigration Specific: Nationalities Services Center – call (215)-893-8400
- Delinquent/Juvenile Justice: The Defender Association of Philadelphia – call (215)-568-3190
Do you want to speak with a therapist?
- Philadelphia Children’s Alliance – call/text (267)-546-3816
Do you need social services?
- The Salvation Army’s 24/7 Human Trafficking Hotline – call (267)-838-5866
- Redeemed for a Cause Hotline – call (215)-821-8353
Do you need LGBTQ+ support?
- Attic Youth Center – call (215)-545-4331
- Y-HEP Health Center – call (215)-344-1632
- Valley Youth House Pride Program – call (215)-925-3180